> Gavin Thomas Nicol, gtn@eps.inso.com said on 9/21/98 2:42 PM:
>
> >The two required encodings are UTF-16 and UTF-8. You can use any other
> >encoding you like, so long as the system you are working with supports
> >it.
> >
> >Remember: byte != character code != character != glyph
>
> It may be slightly off topic, but do you mind expanding on that last
> line? I would be interested.
I'll let Gavin respond to the question, but I find it interesting that
this is somewhat (but not exactly) equivalent to the
phone/phoneme/graph/grapheme distinction in linguistics.
All the best,
David
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